cant boot to large usb drive - help please

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cant boot to large usb drive - help please

Forum: Clonezilla live

Creator: Julian

Created: 2014-08-07

Updated: 2014-08-17

Julian - 2014-08-07

I have been using clonezilla for some years and now is time for a new USB drive.
I am trying to use a Seagate 1DXAP4-500 4TB drive - I have tried manual and tuxboot but whatever option I use I cant boot to that drive. If I use the same process on a small 320G drive it boots without problem.
I assume that there must be some sort of drive compatibility problem here but cant find details / advice.
Any suggestions on using this seagate drive would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Julian

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Steven Shiau - 2014-08-07

Please give testing Clonezilla live a try:
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
They come with newer Linux kernel so it might support your hardware better.

Steven.

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Julian - 2014-08-07

It wont auto boot, if I try to force a USB boot (via f12 boot menu) I get a no boot sector on usb device error.

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Steven Shiau - 2014-08-17

Which file system do you have on that disk?
I did not pay attention to what you have mentioned "4 TB", Now I read that. It's larger than a legacy BIOS can handle, which is 2.2 TB. Therefore you need to use uEFI booting for that, and have a GPT partition table on that disk.
Steven.

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